Use the slip-box as a creativity machine

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Creativity is just connecting things.

We need experience until we can "feel our way" around the problems and questions we deal with, even if these things are words, concepts and notes in a file system.

It is the intuition that comes from the intimate knowledge of a practice that can lead us to new insights.

It is such an important skill to see differences between seemingly similar concepts, or connections between seemingly different ideas.

Our brains evolved to notice details by shifting focus from one area to another, by repeatedly scanning the surroundings. The brain is more likely to notice details when it scans than when it focuses. This is one of the reasons why thinking works so much better when we have the very things we think about in front of our eyes. It is our nature.